CHAPTER 670: Aquarius Jade

***On a remote island in the Boundless Sea.

Han Shuo sat cross-legged on a bare hill. The ground around him was scarred with canyons and seemingly bottomless pits. Several huge stone pillars circled in the air around him.

Han Shuo sat as still as a rock with his eyes closed as the sound of explosions echoed around him.

After a long time, Han Shuo suddenly opened his eyes, revealing pupils that seemed to contain the darkness of the night.

The explosions that were constantly ringing out around him stopped the moment he opened his eyes. The giant stone pillars suspended in the air also stopped spinning.

Seemingly out of nowhere, a huge net above the stone pillars flew down and floated into Han Shuo's palm.

The giant net was called the Toxic Dragon Net, and the main ingredients used to refine this weapon were the dragon veins he had collected from the greater dragons he had killed in Dragon Valley, the most poisonous miasmic gas he had collected from the southern border, soft silk harvested from the depths of the Boundless Sea, and nine other rare materials. With the guidance of the Cauldron Spirit, Han Shuo managed to gather them with difficulty.

When the Toxic Dragon Net was deployed, poisonous miasmic gas would erupt from the dragon veins, forming a cloud of poisonous gas. Similar to the miasmic gases within the Pentacloud Miasma, the poisonous gas cloud possessed intense corrosive power.

Once someone was caught in the Toxic Dragon Net, the miasmic gas would be activated. The gigantic net that Han Shuo had personally crafted using dragon veins as the base material was extremely tough and durable. Without excellent divine weapons or strength that far exceeded Han Shuo's, it would be virtually impossible to break free from the net. This ensured that the victim would be constantly exposed to the corrosion of the poisonous gas.

Half a year had unknowingly passed since Donna and her experts left the Profound Continent. During this six-month period, Han Shuo had stabilised his current Omen Realm and, under the guidance of the Cauldron Spirit, had refined several demonic weapons using some of the precious materials in his possession.

In addition to the Toxic Dragon Net, Han Shuo also refined the Green Hypergolic Dust and the Banner of Hallucination. The Green Hypergolic Dust was made by collecting the ghosefire from thousands of corpses and mixing it with a few types of rare blood. Anyone who came into contact with the Green Hypergolic Dust would spontaneously combust with flames that were extremely difficult to distinguish. The Banner of Hallucination was made by imprinting an intricate hallucination-inducing formation onto a large banner. Those covered by the banner would be trapped, and unless they understood the wonders of the formation, they wouldn't be able to get out easily.

With the help of the Cauldron Spirit, Han Shuo had used up a lot of his precious materials and about three months of time to create the three demonic weapons.

Aside from having successfully crafted the three demonic weapons, Han Shuo's Avatar of Destruction, which had been attempting to gain new insights into the Edict of Destruction, had reached the Mid Stage of the Lowgod Realm - the same realm as his Avatar of Death - in the past six months.

His Avatar of Destruction was able to harness the power of the faith of his followers on the Profound Continent. Not only had he absorbed the energy of destruction from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of orc warriors, but he wasn't lacking in divine energy either. The reason he hadn't been able to improve his cultivation for so long was because his body contained too many impurities that prevented him from comprehending the Edict of Destruction.

By watching the Brook Brothers restore their divine energy, and thanks to the Cauldron Spirit cleansing the impurities from his avatar, Han Shuo was able to gain a new understanding of how to use the Edict of Destruction. In addition to the new knowledge he gained from watching the destruction of the Ninth Realm's Mystical Yin Harvester, his avatar had finally made a breakthrough.

Perhaps the only thing that disappointed Han Shuo was that he had yet to truly understand the Omen Realm. According to the Cauldron Spirit's explanation, demonic cultivators grew through bloodshed. It wouldn't be easy to progress by relying solely on cultivation in seclusion. Besides, half a year was nothing but a heartbeat for demonic art cultivators. He wasn't surprised that he wouldn't be able to make much progress in that time.

It was during this time, with the Church of Calamity as his eyes and ears, that Han Shuo became aware of the paradigm shift that had occurred on the Profound Continent.

The people of the Church of Light and the Shrine of Ice had suddenly become well-behaved. They withdrew from the politics and affairs of the Profound Continent and moved to remote and desolate lands.

Without the support of the Church of Light and the Shrine of Ice the Oden Empire and the Kasi Empire could only retreat against the unstoppable forces of the Lancelot Empire, the Angela Empire, and the Brut Merchant Alliance. It was only a matter of time before they surrendered or were completely defeated.

The situation on the Profound Continent was developing in an ideal way for Han Shuo. That big fat Pope of the Church of Calamity, who had realised the new situation, served Han Shuo with all his heart. He did an excellent job of helping Han Shuo manage everything on this continent, and for that, Han Shuo was very grateful.

Han Shuo's women, perhaps because they had long been used to him mysteriously disappearing, or perhaps because Han Shuo had made promises to them beforehand, although they missed Han Shuo very much, they remained in a fairly stable state of mind.

Seeing that the Profound Continent was on the right track, Han Shuo could finally feel at ease in this world. After refining the three demonic weapons, he headed to the extreme depths of the Boundless Sea.

Following the Cauldron Spirit's instructions, Han Shuo sunk to the extreme depths of the sea and found an area where sharks were constantly circling back and forth. After passing through several water vortexes, he arrived at a place of extreme water with incomparably intense water yuan energy.

According to the Cauldron spirit, in order to maximise the miraculous functions of the Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester, Gu Tian Xie, the Exalted DemonLord, used his supernatural power to alter the laws of heaven and earth, and formed the five largest extreme places on the Profound Continent.

These five extreme places formed a huge circle around the Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester, which had previously been located at the lowest level of the underground world. Their presence was intended to allow the Harvester to gather Mystical Yin Aura more quickly.

The Five Extreme Places, which were established using its terrifying energy, gathered the yuan energies of five attributes on the Profound Continent at an astonishing rate, even forming the Extreme Treasures of Five Attributes. Among the five, the Fire Lotus of the Extreme Fire Place, the Golden Cudgel of the Extreme Metal Place, the Earth Soul Pearl of the Extreme Earth Place, and the Viridian Leaf of the Extreme Wood Place had all been obtained by Han Shuo.

The only remaining treasure Han Shuo had yet to obtain was the Aquarius Jade from the Place of Extreme Water.

The Penta-elemental Undead Formation could only unleash its full destructive power when all five elite zombies were in possession of Extreme Treasures of their respective attributes. Perhaps in the entire Profound Continent, only the Cauldron Spirit knew the exact location of the last Extreme Treasure. With its guidance, Han Shuo easily found the location of the Extreme Water.

Of the five elite zombies, except for the metal elite zombie, all of them had absorbed the energy of divine experts and assimilated divine souls. Based on his observations, Han Shuo believed that the four of them were on the verge of becoming gods and could break through at any moment.

The Cauldron Spirit was very impressed and found Han Shuo's innovative thinking admirable when it learned that Han Shuo had fused two energies from the two universes to create the five elite zombies. It was also curious how the elite zombies would turn out after absorbing the energy of the gods in this universe and becoming gods themselves.

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"This is the place of extreme water that nourishes an Aquarius Jade. When the Exalted Demonlord set up these extreme places, he surely did not expect that the whole thing would take so long that these places would have nurtured the extreme treasures of the five attributes!" the Cauldron Spirit sighed in sorrow after leading Han Shuo to this place.

Looking around, Han Shuo thought he was in a palace of glittering and translucent crystals. All he saw were swirling water pearls. These water pearls did not mix with the sea water, but rolled around disorderly.

Han Shuo could sense the intense Yuan energy of the water in the water pearls. He also detected water vortices forming layers of boundaries around the perimeter that seemed to completely seal off the place. Without the Cauldron Spirit showing him the way, it was highly unlikely that Han Shuo would have discovered this place of extreme water in the depths of the Boundless Sea.

"Where is the Water Aquarius Jade?" Han Shuo asked the Cauldron Spirit in astonishment after looking all around, unable to sense the Aquarius Jade.

"It's in one of those disorderly swirling water pearls. You can't tell where it is because you don't cultivate in that energy!" The Cauldron Spirit replied.

Han Shuo stared blankly for a moment before nodding his head. He immediately summoned the Water Elite Zombie.

"Father, what is this place? It's wonderful, comfortable!" the Water Elite Zombie exclaimed in surprise as soon as he appeared.

"There is something hidden here that will be very important to you. Try to find it! Hehe, if you want to have your own toy just like your brothers, then you better make sure you use this opportunity well!" Han Shuo said smiling.

"You may not be able to find the Aquarius Jade, but it's a piece of cake for him!" the Cauldron Spirit suddenly transmitted.

And the fact proved that the Cauldron Spirit's words were true. Han Shuo thought that it would take some effort for the Water Elite Zombie to locate the Extreme Treasure, but he didn't expect that soon after he arrived from the Netherworld, all but one of those swirling water pearls would suddenly stand still. At that moment, the water pearl started rolling towards the Water Elite Zombie.

"This is great! Thank you, Father! Thank you!" Water Elite Zombie was elated. He just stood still on the same ground as the water bead quickly shot towards him. Then, in front of Han Shuo's attentive eyes, it disappeared into Water Elite Zombie's body.

"After the Aquarius Jade flew into his body, Water Elite Zombie seemed to instantly turn into a giant whirlpool, creating an intense suction force on all those stationary water pearls that contained intense water yuan energy. They all began to roll and flow into the Water Elite Zombie.

"After taking over the Aquarius Jade, he was able to use the treasure to collect those water pearls that contained the most water yuan energy," the Cauldron Spirit explained.

"Thank you, Father! What a wonderful and pure energy!" the Water Elite Zombie cheered incessantly.

After a while, when there were no more water pearls to be found, the whirlpool on the Water Elite Zombie disappeared.

By now, Han Shuo had collected all five extreme treasures on the Profound Continent. All five of his elite zombies had weapons with their own attributes. This would lay a solid foundation for the strength of the Penta-elemental Undead Formation in the future.

"Go back and learn your new weapon properly!" Han Shuo smiled and sent the Water Elite Zombie back to the Netherworld. Han Shuo then flew straight back to Gourd Island. After entering the Cemetery of Death, he went to the giant interplanar transport matrix and inserted a sufficient amount of magical crystal ores. He then stood on the matrix, entered the coordinates Donna had given him and energised the interplanar transport matrix.

Elysium, the plane of the gods, here I come!